Dec 21, 2009

Krapp's Last Tape | Themes

Alienation and Loneliness
As Krapp’s Last Tape proceeds, the viewer understands that, during the course of his life, Krapp has systematically distanced himself from the companionship and love offered by other people. At twenty-nine, Krapp lived with a woman, Bianca, whose love he later called a ‘‘hopeless business’’ (despite the fact that she possessed very ‘‘warm eyes.’’) At thirty-nine, Krapp celebrated his birthday alone in a pub, ‘‘separating the grain’’ of what he felt were...